Cool science stuff

Here's a super-cool one (at least to me).

Scientists claim they've found a perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil killed when the mass extinction asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago

 

You think reusable rockets are cool?

Check out SpinLaunch, a new launch system that recently signed a deal with NASA to send payloads to space.

https://www.freethink.com/space/spinlaunch

https://www.space.com/spinlaunch-nasa-suborbital-test-flight-agreement

 

Sorry if this messes up anybody's plans:

Canadian astronauts no longer free to rob and kill with abandon in space or on the moon | Calgary Herald

 

Looks like the 21st-century take on a trebuchet.

 

News flash:

Archaeologists have apparently discovered the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Medieval ceramic vessel found in Jerusalem offers potential evidence of Crusader knights using hand grenades, study finds

 

WOW

 

Not only cool ... but weird.

NASA baffled as Hubble Space Telescope spots 'something weird' happening to the universe | Science | News | Express.co.uk

 

Longest River. No bridges. WTF?

https://www.livescience.com/why-no-bridges-over-amazon-river

 

Jeff Bezos never gave permission.



Occam's answer while he shaves himself in a steamy mirror is there is little economic incentive to do so in Brazil. Or Colombia or Peru, even in a small tributary of it.

 

Oh yeah, tearing down that historic landmark in Holland for his yacht to get out. Fuck that, him and the yacht builder. Should have thought of that before they laid down the keel.

 

This seems at least cooler than backyard pressure cooker reactors:

NASA's Capstone mission paves the way for lunar infrastructure